From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31899 invoked by uid 1002); 17 Aug 2003 13:49:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 31931 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2003 13:49:07 -0000 From: Luke-Jr Organization: Gentoo Linux To: Seemant Kulleen , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 13:48:54 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030817075537.GA16981@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <20030817010833.12f78a3d.seemant@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20030817010833.12f78a3d.seemant@gentoo.org> GPG-Public-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD53E9583 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="shift_jis" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308171349.05247.luke-jr@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: split tcltk USE flag to tcl and tk X-Archives-Salt: 9ed58fd7-bbf1-4bd9-ae51-aaaf5d1ab3fc X-Archives-Hash: 1e75016b7a86907904d59f4c40fff383 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Unless there are Tcl-specific features for an app, why depend on it at all?= Tk=20 depends on Tcl, that's fine. Let Tk's dependency pull it in. Why do Tk-base= d=20 programs need to be aware of what Tk depends on? On Sunday 17 August 2003 08:08 am, Seemant Kulleen wrote: > This has come up before, and I still wish to voice against it. Like I > said to Mike (vapier/spanky) in a previous post, and what msterret and I > are working on fixing through the tree is: > > tcltk? ( X? ( blah ) ) > > which is more accurate. By separating them you run into this error > case: > > USE=3D"-tcl tk" > > except that tk needs tcl. And once upon a time they actually were > separate. I put them together because every ebuild that had a tk dep in > it was doing: > > tcl? ( tcl ) tk? ( tk ) > > which is just silly really. > > My 2 cents, =2D --=20 Luke-Jr Developer, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/ =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/P4fMZl/BHdU+lYMRAiReAJ0QXftG0tEcgjNuHNmkDQrhQuShrQCeN8YO DGkQ8lpQjTYkyPiHsrJuL0g=3D =3DIy+F =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list